Will Grier Quotes

You're not on scholarship for school, and it sounds crazy when a student-athlete says that, but that's - those are the things coaches tell them every day: 'You're not on scholarship for school.'

If a guy is not serious about being a student-athlete then why force him into the college system. He's not serious about getting education.

Coaching in college is not a right. It's a privilege.

I was a Division III kid whose dad wasn't a coach.

I had a coach when I was getting recruited say maybe you should play basketball at a Division III level, because you're not good enough to play football in college.

If football had always been my main goal then I would have gone to some scholarship school; I could have gotten more exposure there.

I went to college to play football, not to study it.

I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn't study in high school. I was just there to get by and to play basketball. But a funny thing happened to me when I got to college. I got challenged by the work and the professors.

In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.

I played football, honestly, to get a scholarship.

The University of Notre Dame does not redshirt, and I endorse that policy completely. I am very much in favor of redshirting, but not at Notre Dame. But there's no doubt about it. It puts us at a huge disadvantage.

I was the youngest of seven kids and I would not have been able to go to college without an athletic scholarship.

College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

Rookies are also coming in from college programs as big stars, whereas when we came in, we were just happy to be there. We were happy to be playing in a big gym, to be on television, to be playing in America.

I played soccer in college, at this little school in North Carolina called Campbell. It was the only place in the world where they would offer to pay for everything.

I went to the University of Arizona on a full athletic scholarship for gymnastics, where I competed and got 9th in the nation at the NCAAs.

If we have somebody who may be ranked a little higher than another person, if one of them wants to be a Buckeye, wants to play in that rivalry game, play in the Horseshoe, that matters to us. We take all those things into consideration and we try to be as aggressive as we can on the recruiting trail.

Just having the opportunity to play baseball and football at a major D-I level is a great opportunity.

If I was a second-team player, I probably would have gone to uni.

I don't know if I'm different from everybody else, but there's really only two things to me that are really, really important - recruiting good players in the program and developing those players once they get here.

I was a two-star athlete. I got looked over.

Coming from a small town in New Mexico - Lovington, New Mexico - I was very happy to go to college for free and get a scholarship to play college football.

I would advise that if you can get out on loan and play football, it is the best path to go down.

A lot of people don't realise how competitive college sprinting is.

I played baseball when I was younger, but the idea of the college scholarship enticed me to switch over to softball.